ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,832, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"On-vehicle communication line connection apparatus" was invented by Hiromu Tashiro (Susono, Japan), You Yanagida (Susono, Japan) and Akiyoshi Kanazawa (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of a joint connector, a function substitution unit is attached to a position where a plurality of communication lines of systems of a wire harness are concentrated. The function substitution unit includes a plurality of terminals for connection of CAN buses of a plurality of systems, and detects and blocks an unauthorized signal sent from an unauthorized device by distin...